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CRUISING TO SOME GREAT GOLF

GOLF & CRUISE SHIP TRAVEL PROVIDE PERFECT MIX

Until the mid-90s, golf and cruise travel didn’t really mix well. Most lines and ships didn’t offer specific packages, forcing golfers who wanted to combine a cruise and golf vacation to make their own plans. Time, language, and cultural differences often led to bad course choices, missed tee times, and worse (like literally missing the boat after a round of golf).

But that’s all changed. Many cruises are ideal vacations for golfers...or should we say that many golf vacations are ideal on a cruise ship? Today, many cruise lines and specialty travel companies offer a wide range of cruises with golf options. Whether you want to play a few rounds during a trip, get in 18 or even 36 holes every day, or simply attend a tournament, there’s never been a better time to cruise to some great golf almost anywhere in the world.

A cruise and a golf vacation are a perfect combination. Some of the advantages include: unpacking just once; visiting many destinations that have golf courses; experiencing a variety of cultures on and off the links; an essentially all-inclusive price; and expert arrangements of all details related to golf and the rest of your cruise.

“Cruises make ideal vacations for golfers,” says James G. Godsman, president of Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA). “They have the opportunity to play some of the world’s most beautiful courses and enjoy all the amenities cruising offers, from outstanding cuisine to great entertainment to being pampered.”

CRUISE LINES

Virtually every cruise line offers some sort of golf program, ranging from simply arranging tee times to full-fledged golf cruises, packages, and programs. The following overview simply skims the surface of opportunities for hackers hitting the high seas. If your chosen cruise line isn’t covered, be sure to ask your travel agent or the cruise line about specific golf opportunities.

As the offical cruise line of the PGA Tour and Senior PGA Tour, Royal Caribbean International offers a wide range of cruise and golf vacations. The line features challenging golf before, during, and after many cruises. Thanks to the line’s Golf Ahoy! program, Royal Caribbean guests can enjoy golf almost anywhere a Royal Caribbean ship sails, from the Caribbean to Bermuda, Mexico, or Hawaii--currently 32 courses in all!

Golf Ahoy! courses include: Nassau’s Cable Beach Club ($111-$121); many famed Bermuda clubs ($50-$155); lots of Mexico layouts, from Acapulco to Mazatlan ($26-$115); Hawaii golf on several islands ($89-$120); and Caribbean golf on more than ten courses from Antigua to the U.S. Virgin Islands ($70-$145), aboard seven different Royal Caribbean vessels.

On-board, Royal Caribbean’s Voyager of the Seas features a state-of-the-art golf simulator for driving, chipping, and putting, as well as the Voyager Dunes, a nine-hole par 36 ‘golf course’ and the 19th Hole bar. Before or after a Royal Caribbean cruise out of Puerto Rico, there are golf packages available at the Hyatt Regency Cerromar Beach.

With it’s extensive number of ships and itineraries, Carnival Cruise Lines offers golfers of any proficiency level many opportunities to play top courses in the Bahamas, Mexico, and the Caribbean, as well as receive one-on-one instruction from PGA teaching professionals. More than a dozen different golf courses are featured in the program, incuding The Links at Safe Haven on Grand Cayman, The Key West Golf Club, and St. Thomas’s Mahogany Run, a George and Tom Fazio design along the island’s scenic coastline.

Port-of-call excursion packages include greens fees, professional instruction, cart rental or caddie, and transportation to and from shoreside courses. Equipment rental, including top-of-the-line Callaway clubs, is also available.

Lessons are provided by the pros on both aboard ship and during golf excursions, who combine their years of teaching experience with state-of-the-art computer technology to help cruising golfers improve their game.

The program, which guests sign up for once on board, is available on all Carnival “Fun Ships” except the MS Tropicale. Shipboard lessons are available in 30- or 60-minute sessions and take place in a netted ‘driving range,’ where seafaring swings are videotaped and analyzed on computer by the teaching pro. A take-home video re-cap, complete with voice-over instruction and stop-action analysis, is provided with each lesson.

Tampa-based Paradise Golf runs the program, which is featured on sailings from Miami, Tampa, San Juan, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Florida’s Port Canaveral, as well as the new Carnival Triumph’s four- and five-day Canada cruises from New York (through October 11th) and the ship’s year-round Caribbean sailings from Miami beginning October 23rd. Prices begin at just $40 for shipboard lessons and $100 for shoreside golf excursions, which include on-site instruction and support.

Similarly, Holland American Line features a wide range of golf in the Caribbean with their Golf Shore Excursions program. With prices ranging from $80 to around $150, Holland American offers passengers golf on Grand Cayman, Jamaica, Barbados, St. Kitts, St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. Lucia, Martinique, Trinidad, and Puerto Rico. Their top choices include St. Thomas’s Mahogany Run, Royal St. Kitts Golf Course, and Sandy Lane on Barbados.

Costa Cruises also works with Tampa-based Paradise Golf to give an Italian flair to cruising and golf. On both the CostaRomantica and the CostaVictoria Eastern and Western Caribbean itineraries, golfing cruisers can take part in on-board golf clinics with a PGA pro, as well as 15-, 30-, and 60-minute golf lessons. The 30- and 60-minute golf lessons include a videotape (with audio) to reinforce what you’ve learned. Costs for lessons start at just $20.

Guests can also improve their swing with the V-1 golf teaching computer. This high-tech tool compares a player’s swing to that of a favorite PGA touring pro, providing frame-by-frame insight through split screen analysis. This high-tech tool, coupled with hands-on private PGA pro instruction, leads to better scores on shore.

Once on land, cruising golfers can participate in golf tournaments and putting contests at some of the Caribbbean’s top courses, including: Mahogany Run on St. Thomas; Teeth of the Dog at Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic; Runaway Bay in Jamaica; and The Links at Safe Haven in Grand Cayman.

Additionally, to further enhance the experience, the pros take care of all transportation and personally escorts guests to the golf course. Top-of-the-line equipment and accessories are also available right onboard. Costs for the shoreside golf excursions run from $135 to $210.

Costa’s Caribbean season begins in November and runs through April. Departing from Fort Lauderdale every Sunday, the two ships alternate itineraries between the eastern ports of San Juan, St. Thomas/St. John, Serena Cay, and Nassau and the western Caribbean ports of Key West, Playa del Carmen/Cozumel, Ocho Rios, and Grand Cayman.

American Hawaii Cruises has dubbed their classic SS Independence the “world’s biggest golf cart.” It’s certainly one of the best ways to play golf in the Hawaiian Islands.

American Hawaii’s 682-foot ship ‘carts’ passengers to 18 of Hawaii’s most beautiful and challenging golf courses at five different ports in just seven days. There’s no need to board planes to travel from island to island, arrange hotel accommodations (or tee times) at each location, or unpack your golf clothes more than once.

Hawaii’s first golf course was built in 1898 and it’s become a golfer’s paradise in the past century, with year-round play, stunning scenery on the links, courses laid out by famed architects, and tournaments viewed around the world. Surrounding Hawaii’s courses are picturesque backdrops of ocean, mountains, tropical gardens, waterfalls, and volcanoes. With year-round sunshine and balmy breezes, golfers can play over lava rock embankments, across lush ravines, over Pacific Ocean inlets, around petroglyph fields, and past ancient burial caves.

Through American Hawaii’s Golf Hawaii program, passengers can choose from resort and tournament courses designed by the likes of Nicklaus, Palmer, and the Trent Jones father-son duo. The choices include: Waikele, Sheraton Makaha, and Luana Hills Country Club on Oahu; Kiele, Mokiana Course at Kauai Lagoons, Princeville Prince, and Princeville Makai Course on Kauai; Wailea Gold, Blue, and Emerald Courses, Kaanapali North and Sout Courses, and Pukalani on Maui; and Kona Country Club Ocean and Mauka Courses, Makalei, Waikoloa-Kings and Waikoloa-Beach Courses on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Prices for 18 holes range from $50 to $145 and include cart and greens fees. Transportation and rental clubs are included in the rates for a few of the courses, while car rentals or other transportation are easily arranged for most.

The SS Independence is the only ocean liner that cruises exclusively among the Hawaiian Islands year-round. It’s the ideal ‘golf cart’ for Hawaii.

If you want an even more luxurious vacation on a ship and on the links, Crystal Cruises offers both with ‘Par Excellence,’ their new shoreside golf program. With guaranteed tee times at more than 20 of the world's most famous and challenging courses, several Crystal cruises offer an excellent combination of golf and cruising.

"Many of our Crystal guests have a keen interest in the game of golf and are members of prominent clubs throughout the world," says Crystal Cruises' president, Joseph A. Watters. "With Par Excellence, our guests will have access to top international courses to play by day and then return to 'The 19th Hole' aboard their Crystal ship."

These special voyages aboard Crystal Harmony and Crystal Symphony offer the rare opportunity to play historic courses only dreamed about by many golf travelers. From a British Isles itinerary boasting St. Andrews' Duke's Course, Royal Dornoch, Royal Birkdale, and Portmarnock Links Golf Clubs, to a South Pacific route featuring Royal Melbourne Golf Club, the site of last year's President's Cup, each Par Excellence program includes a two-, three-, or four-course tournament, a wealth of golf amenities, and related on-board programming.

For the rest of 1999, Par Excellence is available on an 11-day Panama Canal/Caribbean cruises aboard Crystal Harmony (December 3). Crystal Symphony will offer the new program several 12-day Mediterranean cruises in September and two South Pacific journeys, a 16-day cruise on December 1 and an 11-day cruise on December 17. A full slate of golf cruises is planned for 2000.

Featured destinations with world-class courses include: Costa Rica, Aruba, St. Thomas, and St. Martin/St. Maarten on the Panama Canal/Caribbean itinerary; Scotland, England, Ireland, Italy, Malta, France, Spain, and Greece on the Baltic/Mediterranean trip; and Indonesia, Australia, and New Zealand on the Asia/South Pacific cruise.

This new series of golf tournaments includes green fees for scheduled rounds of golf, roundtrip transfers between the ship and course, bottled water and refreshments, power-driven carts, caddies, and pull-carts, golf bag travel cover, and tournament prizes. On-board the six-star Crystal Harmony and Crystal Symphony, guests receive complimentary club storage, as well as enjoying putting and chipping contests and private cocktail parties. Golf escorts will join the pampered golfers for all activities. Prices for Par Excellence start at just $850 per person in 1999.

Crystal Cruises has long catered to golfers with golf clinics, instruction by PGA pros, and on-board putting greens and driving ranges. Last year, Callaway Golf became the official golf club of Crystal Cruises and the luxury vessels now boat their top-performing stainless steel irons, titanium drivers, steelhead fairway and utility woods, and putters.

With the new cruises and relationship with Callaway Golf, Crystal Cruises has become very popular with discerning golfers. "Crystal Cruises has emerged as the leading large-ship luxury cruise line be consistently offering innovative on-board programming, supported by an array of active opportunities ashore," says Watters. "The new golf program is in keeping with our penchant for choices." Of course, Crystal’s 2000 Par Excellence offerings will be similarly top-notch.

At 50,000 tons and carrying only 940 guests each, Crystal Harmony and Crystal Symphony are two of the most spacious ships afloat. The luxury vessels are owned by Crystal Cruises, winner of the travel industry's most distinguished hospitality awards and guidebook rankings. Last year, the line's honors included "World's Best Large Cruise Line" and "Best Large-Ship Cruise Line" by the readers of Travel & Leisure and Conde' Nast Traveler magazines, respectively.

To continue with another of the best cruise lines and programs for golfers, Silversea Cruises features a wide variety of opportunities through their Silver Links offerings. This upscale line offers one of the most comprehensive golf packages afloat.

Silversea’s 2000 Silver Links program (many similar packages are available through the end of 1999) allows golf enthusiasts to combine their love of luxury travel with their passion for golf aboard 17 itineraries that feature 59 courses in 26 different countries. Featured on itineraries in nearly every part of the world, guests can enjoy golf on cruises to Australia and New Zealand, the Far East, the Mediterranean, Northern Europe, South Africa, South Amerca, and the historic colonial coast of the U.S.

In true Silversea style, the Silver Links program is conveniently all-inclusive, making exotic tee times in places like Morocco and Malaysia as easy as your neighborhood club. Golfers travel the world in plush luxury aboard the yacht-like sister ships Silver Cloud and Silver Wind, playing as many as six different courses on a single cruise. Every detail is handled and every arrangement made.

Just as each Silversea cruise features all-inclusive luxuries, guests will find that the Silver Links program covers virtually everything. Starting at $995 per person, the packages include: greens fees for scheduled rounds; carts (where available), caddies, or pull carts; gratuitities for caddies and bag handlers; on-course refreshments; roundtrip transfers between the ship and the courses; golf competitions and prizes; golf bag to protect your clubs; Silver Links logo polo shirt, hat, golf towel, balls, and tees; course descriptions and maps; golf hosts to keep players informed of activities; and on-board parties for golf participants and their travel partners.

Silver Links offers passengers a world of unforgettable golf, from teeing off at venerable St. Andrews in Edinburgh to hitting the links at 1,000-acre Royal Golf Club Dar es Salam in Morocco, where the fairways are lined with fragrant mimosa and banana trees.

Aboard Silversea, the tangibles of ultra-luxury travel--Moet & Chandon champagne, Christofle silverware, monogrammed Frette bed linens, and Bvlgari bath amenities--are subtly blended with an intangible 24-hour at-your-service atmosphere. Whether guests crave champagne and caviar on their private veranda or an elegant dinner served course-by-course in the intimacy of their suite, they can get it on a Silversea cruise.

Silversea’s all-inclusive fares, which are the most comprehensive in the industry, include: all oceanview suite accommodations (75% with private veranda); round-trip transportation (with complimentary or reduced rate upgrades to Business Class on select itineraries); deluxe pre-cruise hotel accommodations; all beverages, including select wines and spirits; all gratuitities; all port charges; all transfers and porterage; and The Silversea

Experience, a special shore event offered on select itineraries.

For those who want to go further afield or on unique ships, some more unusual options include: Bergen Line (cruises throughout Scandinavia, including several summer golf tours of Sweden) and Captain Cook Cruises (featuring several ‘Great Barrier Reef Golf Cruises’).

OPERATORS

Many excellent companies specialize in golf travel on and off cruise ships. For instance, PGA Travel, the official travel company of the PGA of America for more than 12 years, offers a wide range of golf-oriented travel. Their 1999 Ryder Cup cruise was certainly indicative of the quality of their trips at sea or on land.

Golfers interested in combining the Ryder Cup with an elegant cruise joined host Billy Casper aboard the Seabourn Pride for the golf experience of a lifetime. Participants were treated with a world of elegance as they cruised with only 200 other guests on a fall foliage cruise to the charming ports of Bar Harbor, Portland and Kennebunkport, Maine, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Then, the ship headed to Boston, where passengers used her as the base for attending the 1999 Ryder Cup at The Country Club in Brookline.

Cruisers enjoyed this golf and cruise combination in an elegant world of their own. They were pampered in a suite with a stunning five-foot picture window and a host of elegantly appointed furnishings and gracious touches, including personally engraved stationary. Of course, on-board host Billy Casper was the perfect companion on and off the ship.

While in Boston, passengers were transported daily to The Country Club to witness one of the most exciting events in golf. Scheduled every two years, the twelve best American players and the twelve best European players gather at one of the world's great venues for three days of the most pressure-packed competition of their lives. PGA Travel has hosted several of these Ryder Cup cruises and is also the only company licensed by the PGA to sell tickets (outside the lottery).

Several other PGA Travel offerings afloat are currently being planned, so it’s best to contact them for new developments. Of course, like many other operators, PGA Travel continues to offer a wide range of land-based golf packages and PGA tournament travel opportunities.

PerryGolf, the Golf Tour Operator of the Year in the 1999 Hertz International Travel Awards, is leading the way with luxury golf cruise travel into the next millennium. With a wide range of options, PerryGolf and sister company InterGolf make arranging a golf cruise easy.

"As it is our goal to provide the very best in international golf travel experiences, we are constantly looking to work with the world's most renowned travel vendors who share our dedication to providing the highest quality golf programs to the discriminating traveler," say Gordon and Colin Dalgleish, principals at PerryGolf. "In conjunction with working with the world's finest resorts and golf courses, we also look for unique or exclusive transportation opportunities for our clients, such as the QE2, the M/S Clipper Adventurer, and the Belle, an historic refurbished 79-foot motor yacht."

The 122-passenger M/S. Clipper Adventurer is the exclusive floating deluxe hotel for playing outstanding golf and attending the 2000 British Open at St. Andrews, the 2001 British Open at Royal Lytham and St. Annes, and a "Best of Ireland" cruise, also in 2001. Their 1999 British Open trip aboard the Adventurer sold out well in advance.

In the grand tradition of luxury cruising and golf, PerryGolf is also offering a 2000 British Open package aboard the famed QE2--the world's most famous ocean liner. This tour also includes play at two St. Andrews area courses and a one-night cruise to Southampton, England.

Closer to home, PerryGolf offers exclusive golf charters aboard the Belle, a lovingly restored 77-foot motor yacht. Lucky golf groups cruise along the southeastern U.S. Intracoastal Waterway from Jacksonville, Florida to Charleston, South Carolina. Golfing opportunities include: Sea Island, Hilton Head Island, Kiawah Island, Wild Dunes, and much more.

InterGolf offers the Nantucket Clipper and its seven-night Colonial South Golf Cruise. The next one is scheduled to depart next April 8th. Sailing out of Charleston, golf opportunities include Kiawah’s Osprey Point, Dataw Island, Palmetto Dunes, Hampton Club, and Osprey Cove. With prices starting at just $2,850 per person and including an outside stateroom, meals, golf, and more, it’s a great deal in southern golf.

Of course, PerryGolf and InterGolf both offer a wide range of other trips, including VIP golf coaches, train trips, helicopter and private jet tours, and many more unique options. The 32-page PerryGolf and 39-page InterGolf brochures provide a colorful overview of trips around the world. The PerryGolf brochure features stunning Ray Ellis watercolors, while the InterGolf brochure features colorful golf and travel photography from their various trips. Whether you want a package around the corner or around the world, the probably have a perfect offering.

PerryGolf and InterGolf both work with a large number of Hertz International Travel Awards winners. The American Golf Course of the Year--Kiawah Island Ocean Course--is on PerryGolf's exclusive southeastern golf cruises on the Belle, while the Worldwide Golf Destination of the Year (Ireland), the Worldwide Golf Resort of the Year (Gleneagles); European Golf Course of the Year (San Lorenzo, Portugal); and the Emerging Golf Destination of the Year (Morocco) are all on their cruise or land-based itineraries.

Imagine playing some of the world's best courses during the day and enjoying one of the world's best cruise lines at night. That's what the combination of Seabourn Cruise Line and Wide World of Golf offers.

"We have carefully selected the finest courses in the world for our Seabourn guests," says Wide World of Golf president Bill Hogan. "If they have chosen the most lauded cruise line, then they deserve the most famous courses."

Wide World of Golf's lineup includes many unique golf cruises to destinations like the eastern seaboard of the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, the British Isles, the Mediterranean, and Southeast Asia. Half of these luxury cruises have been designated a School at Sea, which is a custom Wide World of Golf program where guests enjoy private lessons and clinics with PGA Professionals.

Wide World of Golf and Seabourn have worked together for more than ten years to bring discerning golfers the best courses and luxury cruises around the world. Cruising guests of all skill levels have enjoyed legendary "Royal" courses like Royal Dornoch, Royal Melbourne, and Royal Portrush, as well as astonishing newcomers like Old Head of Kinsale, Kiaway Island, and Blue Canyon.

On each cruise, there is a professional Golf Escort on board to handle all golf details and assure the utmost in comfort and service for Wide World of Golf guests. Days of golf are confirmed in about half of the ports of call for a maximum of 20 players on any given day. Everything is pre-arranged, including transportation, green fees, rental clubs (if needed), and carts or caddies.

Each Wide World of Golf cruise with Seabourn includes: green fees; cart, caddie, or pull cart (caddie gratuities included); the full-time services of an experienced Golf Escort; School at Sea conducted by PGA Professionals (designated voyages); all transfers to and from courses; golf bag travel cover and tag; official Seabourn golf apparel; various prizes and awards; all gratuities for golf personnel (no tipping expected or accepted); refreshments at the golf courses; special golfer and spouse parties; on-board club storage and porterage (not stored in your cabin); an on-board golf video library; and many interesting optional extras, like pre- or post-cruise golf tour extensions arranged by Wide World of Golf.

In addition, Wide World of Golf also works with Seabourn’s sister company, Cunard, to arrange golf aboard their ships. This includes an exciting QE2 cruise for the 2000 British Open. They are also developing a program for the new Queen Mary II, which will be launched in 2000.

If a European river cruise is more you style, then you can combine it with golf through Kalos Golf. This North Carolina company features several golf-oriented offerings aboard the 90-passenger MS River Cloud. Their Danube River Golf Cruise sails next June 28 and July 26 and features possible golf and touring in Hungary, Austria, and Germany. The River Cloud will also be a base for a Rhine River Golf Cruise in August, sailing from Nuremberg to Amsterdam. Prices per person for their 2000 offerings start at roughly $4,500.

Kalos Golf also offers European golf cruises aboard the chartered Sea Cloud, a four-masted barque. One of their 2000 cruises is from Monte Carlo to Rome in May and is hosted by Rees Jones. The other Riviera cruise sails from Nice to St. Tropez, Monte Carlo, Corsica, and Sardenia, before ending in Rome. Both trips have Lake Como extensions. A Coast of Spain Golf Cruise (Barcelona to Malaga) aboard the new Sea Cloud II is also planned for October.

Some more unique offerings from operators include: a Thames river golf cruise with Abercrombie & Kent; European barge tours through The Barge Lady (her Burgundy golf cruise is legendary); Ireland barge cruises with Maupintour; and private yacht charters with Richleigh Yachts, a Fort Lauderdale-based company that is experienced in helping golfers charter the best boats and itineraries.

Of course, many other cruise lines and operators offer a combination of cruising and golf. The lines covered above may also offer golf on cruises and packages not specifically mentioned. In addtion, other fine lines that may offer packages (or at least arrange golf) on many of their itineraries include: Celebrity Cruises, Commodore Cruise Line, Cunard Line, Disney Cruise Line, First European Cruises, Mediterranean Shipping Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line, Orient Lines, Premier Cruise Lines, Princess Cruises, Radisson Seven Seas Cruises, Regal Cruises, Royal Olympic Cruisees, Seabourn Cruise Line, Windjammer, and Windstar Cruises.

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Phone numbers & website addresses for all companies covered in this feature....

Abercrombie & Kent--800/323-7308, www.abercrombiekent.com

American Hawaii Cruises--800/765-7000, www.cruisehawaii.com

(The) Barge Lady--800/880-0071, www.bargelady.com

Bergen Line--800/323-7436, www.bergenline.com

Captain Cook Cruises--888/292-2775, www.captcookcrus.com.au

Carnival Cruise Lines--800/CARNIVAL, www.carnival.com

Celebrity--800/437-3111, www.celebritycruises.com

Commodore Cruise Line--800/237-5361, www.commodorecruise.com

Costa Cruises--800/33-COSTA, www.costacruises.com

Crystal--800/820-6663, www.crystalcruises.com

Cunard Line--800/7-CUNARD, www.cunardline.com

Disney Cruise Line--800/939-2784, www.disneycruise.com

First European Cruises--888/983-8767, www.first-european.com

Holland America--800/426-0327, www.hollandamerica.com

InterGolf--800/468-0051, www.golf.com/travel/intergolf

Kalos Golf--800/314-3162 (no website yet)

Maupintour--800/243-6244, www.maupintour.com

Mediterranean Shipping Cruises--800/666-9333, www.msccruisesusa.com

Norwegian Cruise Line--800/327-7030, www.ncl.com

Orient Lines--800/333-7300, www.orientlines.com

Paradise Golf--800/324-1106, www.paradise-golf.com

PerryGolf--800/344-5257, www.perrygolf.com

PGA Travel--800/283-4653, www.travelinc.com

Premier Cruise Lines--800/327-9766, www.premiercruises.com

Princess Cruises--800/774-6237, www.princesscruises.com

Radisson Seven Seas Cruises--800/333-3333, www.rssc.com

Regal Cruises--800/270-SAIL, www.regalcruises.com

Richleigh Yachts--800/578-4348, www.richleighyachts.com

Royal Caribbean International--800/327-6700, www.royalcaribbean.com

Royal Olympic Cruises--800/872-6400, www.royalolympiccruises.com

Seabourn Cruise Line--800/929-9391, www.seabourn.com

Silversea Cruises--800/774-9996, www.silversea.com

Wide World of Golf--800/214.4653, www.wideworldofgolf.com

Windjammer Cruises--800/327-2601, www.windjammer.com

Windstar Cruises--800/258-7245, www.windstarcruises.com